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Paint Eastport Day auction finds temporary home

Writing on behalf of the Eastport Gallery, board member Roland LaVallee explained that the gallery, located at 52 Water St., will close for the season early this year.

“During a prolonged Downeast rain,” he wrote, “due to the general stress of aging, the upstairs interior layer of the south wall of the building collapsed.”

And while no people, or any of the gallery’s contents were harmed, the building was cordoned off, and the gallery membership had to seek a temporary location for its eighth annual Paint Eastport Day.

To the rescue (thus saving the gallery’s major fund-raiser of the year) came Hugh French and his wife, Kristin McKinlay, of The Tides Institute & Museum of Art, with an offer for the use of their building, which was graciously accepted.

Paint Eastport Day begins with artist registration from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Tides Institute, 43 Water St. in Eastport.

Paint Eastport Day, LaVallee added, is always held in conjunction with the Maine Salmon Festival, which takes place in that community this weekend.

For a $1 registration fee, “artists from around the state are invited to paint their favorite scene of Eastport,” he wrote, and the new works will be brought back to the Tides Institute by 4 p.m. that day.

A Paint Eastport Day Silent Auction and Reception begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Tides Institute.

The reception is free, but the cost of a bid card is $1, and a percentage of each sale benefits the gallery.

“This has been great fun,” LaVallee concluded, “and we, the gallery members, would like artists, young and old, amateur or professional, to know that the event will take place this year.

“And, yes, the members are planning to open in the same building on 52 Water Street next spring.”

Fields Pond Audubon Center is seeking volunteers to lead school groups on Secrets of the Forest tours.

Volunteers are asked to participate in two orientation sessions, which last about two hours each.

Those sessions are at 10 a.m. today and Friday, Sept. 10; 12:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13, and 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14, at the Holden site.

The weekday tour season is Wednesday, Sept. 15, through Friday, Oct. 29.

Volunteers are asked to lead groups as their schedules permit.

The only volunteer requirements are a love of nature, willingness to share with children and, of course, participation in the orientation sessions.

For more information, call Jane Rosinski at 989-2591.

On behalf of Penobscot Community Health Center, resource development manager Vicki Rusbult invites you to a yard sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, in its main parking lot at 1048 Union St. in Bangor.

Sale items include household and sporting goods, children’s toys and clothing, food and books.

All proceeds benefit the 2004 American Heart Walk.

PCHC is the presenting sponsor for the walk, which is Saturday, Oct. 16, at Husson College in Bangor.

Funds support the AHA to help increase awareness about heart disease, which is the leading cause of death among Maine residents, and strokes, the third leading cause of death in our state.

Next week I’ll have wonderful information to share with you about the opening of the new Beth C. Wright Center in Ellsworth, serving people in that area who are coping with cancer.

But, today, it’s important that you know that Poor Boy’s Gourmet is hosting a benefit dinner for the Wright Center beginning when the restaurant opens at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12, at 300 Main St. in Bar Harbor.

For each meal served, reported Wright Center executive director Michael Reisman, owners Chris and Kathleen Field will donate $2 to the center.

To make reservations, call Poor Boy’s at 288-4141.

Be sure to wait several rings before the message clicks in.

Woodland Museum of Ellsworth, also known as The Black House, is hosting an Antiques Appraisal Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Holiday Inn, High Street in Ellsworth.

Appraisers include Bruce Buxton, Portland, paintings, prints, porcelain, metals and furniture; Phyllis Gaul, Searsport, glass; Douglas Harding, Wells, books and manuscripts; Paul Zebiac, Bangor, coins and political memorabilia; and Gerald Dean Wolf, Portland, jewelry.

Appraisals are $8 for one item, $15 for two and $20 for three.

Coffee and a light lunch will be available.

Proceeds benefit Woodland Museum.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.


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